Gallery: We Take a Ride in the Self-Driving Uber Now Roaming Pittsburgh
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Starting this morning, pre-selected Uber users in a 12-square-mile chunk of downtown Pittsburgh will have the option to ride in a self-driving car—with a human engineer at the wheel who can take over if things get dicey.
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Uber's using autonomous Ford Fusions, it will intro Volvo XC90s to the fleet early next year.
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An array of cameras watches the for slowing vehicles, pedestrians, traffic lights, and other obstacles.
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"Wing-mounted" LIDAR unites look for nearby obstacles and watch the car's blind spots.
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In the backseat, a specially designed tablet keeps customers informed about their ride.
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Minus the special autonomy controls, the car's interior isn't so different from any other.
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The cars are now roaming downtown Pittsburgh, and their territory should soon expand.
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Uber won’t say when, exactly, it expects to remove the bags of meat from the driver’s seat. But it's clear the ridesharing giant is racing into an autonomous future.
